I built this !, show off what you tinker with other than 914's Options

[falcor75]

I love a good project and now that the 914 is done and has a great new owner I can fully focus on the next build. Well its kinda been my main project since 2019 but I couldnt say that out loud around the 914. For me its the ultimate diy thing except for maybe building your own house from scratch.



The frame and suspension is based on the Haynes book "Build your own sports car on a budget"



The engine is a five cylinder NA from a Volvo 850 GLT mated to a manual M90 gearbox from the Volvo 960. Uprights and rear diff/axles are from a Ford Sierra/Mercur.



The bodywork is all my own idea, 1.2 mm 1050 alu sheet. I built myself an english wheel and bought a cheap beadroller and slightly more expensive shrinker/stretcher. Doing the body myself added about a year to the project time.

What remains to be done is fenders (road legal requirement sadly) and all the gauges/lightning and interior bits.

Two weeks ago was the first time it rolled out of the garage as a new vehicle.

https://youtu.be/BYJZTnMe6KU

A few days later after doing some brake adjustments the driver got to try some braaap.

https://youtube.com/shorts/E2XruVZ5qmE

Those short drive were hugely motivating to get the rest done and hopefully get it roadlegal during next spring. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


What are you building thats not a 914? Show it off in this thread wether its woodworking or something else. I love to see other people being creative.

[914 Ranch]

I got introduced to airplanes at the young age of 5. I had no idea how much that would mean to me through out my life. My father worked as an electrician at LAX doing maintenance on a flight line. Apparently he had heard of an event that had to do with the Northrup YB49, the flying wing. He gathered us kids up and took us out to the end of Ontario airport runway and we got to see the big bomber take off on it's last flight. It was going to be scrapped. Now that I think about it, must it have been heartbreaking for Jack Northrup having to scrape 13 of the airplane of his dreams. I don't recall my father telling us about the plane and I don't think I would have understood but I do recall seeing a dark horizontal line approaching from way down the runway with lots of black smoke (it had 8 jet engines) and they looked like they were burning coal. The black line just kept getting bigger and bigger.
So I have always been interested in airplanes. My favorite propeller driven plane is a F-82. Essentially a twin fuselage P-51.
I have been building foam board RC models. One is an F-82. They don't make a kit for the F-82 so I used 2 P-51 kits to produce a n F-82. I also have a wing that's wing span is 71". The F-82's wing span is 63" long



The last flight of the YB-49 happened in1953. I believe that the YB-49 was the last wing to receive jet motors until the B-2. They are about the same size and Jack Northrup was taken to see the B-2 before he passed.